Posted on 06/12/2014 11:16:36 AM PDT by thackney
“This battery would have to be recycled for less than $115 “
I did some reading and it appears that it may be less than $115 per cycle. I haven’t found exact evaluation numbers but the design target is to make it less than the gasoline used by a hybrid engine.
Oh. Okay. So they people who actually drive them are making it all up? SMDH.
Of course. Many people who buy a new gadget exaggerate its performance. They will regale you with the one day, when the batteries were new, when they drove down hill in a tail wind, with the A/C off, drafting a Wal-Mart truck, how great the range was. They "forget" the extenuating circumstances.
I bought that malarkey once, too. I built an all electric house with a geothermal heat pump for heat. It had a "smart meter" to sell me this great low cost electricity at night. It was a complete disaster. I quickly found out that my family (and most people) use electricity when they WANT to use electricity, not when the power company wants to sell it to them.
The energy density of batteries, in both mass and volume, will have to get an order of magnitude better (that's TEN TIMES BETTER), before electric cars will become feasible for most people.
A friend had a Lotus. That describes it perfectly.
Exactly. They put it off another year...
Got to hand it to Musk though. He’s a visionary enough promoter to have his PR people posting on places like FR.
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